Here’s my 2023 language book gift guide for every type of word nerd. For the rule follower: Most people, even grammar-savvy types, don’t know about usage guides.

Human language may not be as unique as you think. Birds use compositional syntax to communicate too, scientists say.

The study of language semantics and syntax explores the intricate relationship between meaning and grammatical structure. Contemporary research has increasingly focused on how semantic content is ...

James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, regarded by many as the most fiendishly difficult book in the English language, has finally been fully translated into Chinese. The task took 18 years of scholarly ...